bǎn

variant of 阪[bǎn]

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

反 sound component

  Sound component

fǎn

  

reverse

Evolution

坂 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
坂 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
坂 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
坂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bǎn

variant of [bǎn]

() 

bǎn

hillside farmland; slope

Most common words with 坂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

slope

达坂城

Dabancheng district of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wū​lǔ​mù​qí​Shì], Xinjiang

达坂城区

Dabancheng district of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wū​lǔ​mù​qí​Shì], Xinjiang

坂井

Sakai (Japanese surname and place name)

坂本

Sakamoto (Japanese surname)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4000th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5742


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